Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But since that time most female undergraduates had come to see themselves as Harvard women and felt little inclination to attend Radcliffe programs Meanwhile women's issues sometimes fell between the cracks--Harvard assumed Radcliffe would take care of them, but Radcliffe lacked the money or the clout to pursue...
But one negotiator says that despite the growing need for a revision of the arrangement, longstanding distrust between the two schools kept them apart. As early as the 1930s, President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, had set out to sever ties between Harvard and Radcliffe. Alumnae learned even then...
It was the first of a number of informal conversations between Rudenstine and Sheerr that took place that summer.
While the process began with a conversation between Sheerr, Wilson and Rudenstine, the talking group was soon pared to two.
By May, sources say Sheerr had sensed Harvard'sreluctance and produced a new and more realisticplan. Rudenstine considered it a leap forward,leading to an informal meeting between members ofHarvard's Corporation and Radcliffe's Board ofTrustees in June.